McDonalds will eliminate cage-confined chickens from its supply chain

[Jade]

I guess I'm just hoping that more people have a lifestyle change and that McDonald's becomes obsolete, not that they are a mainstay in our culture out of necessity. I'm poor, I'm effectively very poor and live at poverty levels for two people. But I eat healthy, organic, whole foods for every meal of the day, because my diet is a priority to me. I make other sacrifices to obtain that diet. McDonald's is NOT healthy, is NOT real food, and is one of the factors making people disgustingly sick and obese - over 2/3rds of people are obese! You know why? Because we eat food that has no nutritional value, so we have to eat more, and more, and more, and more to feel satisfied. Putting chickens in bigger cages affects none of this.

Also, the poorest people in the US are NOT eating at McDonald's, they are eating on food stamps. They can't even afford to eat fast food. Sure, everyone can splurge on the dollar menu once in a while, and I don't deny the value of comfort food, but accepting McDonald's (without a HUGE overhaul in their modus operandi) as part of the paradigm is not the future earth I envision.